Transmission

My second novel by Hari Kunzru. I listened to the audiobook read by the author, who has a very pleasant voice. What I loved the first time around in Red Pill was also present in Transmission: intelligent writing, a sense of humour, an original if somewhat convoluted plot, and a sensitive but not mel......more

That’s Entertainment Having read an excess of tortuous unreadababble Americocaine (anti-)novels this year, I picked up this book, thinking it would be serious literary fiction from a reputable (i.e., establishment) publisher. Imagine my surprise when, for approximately 250 out of 280 pages, it turned......more

Transmit (transitive verb): a : to send or convey from one person or place to another: b : to cause or allow to spread: as (1) : to convey by inheritance or heredity: (2) : to convey (infection) abroad or to another Kunzru's book covers the entirety of that definition. The lead character, Arjun M......more

Hari Kunzru is an amazing writer! This is a brilliant novel of globalization and displacement. Skilled workers may be imported from the "undeveloped" world to North America but are not necessarily respected. The asperger’s questionnaire is brilliant and oh so true. At least here the virus unleashed on......more

Transmission is the story of the havoc wreaked on society by a computer virus named Leela, named after a fictional Bollywood star named Leela Zahir. At its center is a young Indian computer programmer, Arjun Mehta, who releases the virus when his tenuous, exploitative job with a Silicon Valley antiv......more